Philosophy Quotes

"History began when humans invented gods, and will end when humans become gods" "Do not be dead serious about your life. It is just a play." "I am so busy doing nothing that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything." "If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little" "Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity" "All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there" "You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about the pathway to the future, but all there will ever be is what’s happening here" "My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness" "I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire, and faith leaps over it" "You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do" "Wine is a great metaphor for life. Think of it this way: Good wine is a fusion of time, place, and people" "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide." "Life is the sum of all your choices." "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance." "Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being." "Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism." "You didn't come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here" "The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is" "Here are additional famous quotes by Alan Watts:" "The truth is, I am rooted, but I flow."